A gathering of developers and miners later in July changes its agenda as the community awaits the next Core update scheduled for the first week of August.
The meetup will take place in California, with the participation of such industry leaders as Bitmain/AntPool, Blockstream, HaoBTC and F2Pool, organised by the team of Bitcoin Core. As reported by CoinDesk, it was originally planned to discuss bitcoin scaling, similar to the “consensus” conference that took place in December 2015 in Hong Kong. However, it is now rethought as a social gathering focused on reducing the “language and cultural gap” and mending somewhat “tense” relations between miners and developers.
This is a closed, invitation-only event. However, the organisers try to avoid being seen as conspirators wishing to alter the bitcoin network. According to the Core participant BTC Drak,
“Given what has gone on in the past, everyone is afraid of being vilified or worse.”
Despite that, he has positive expectations:
“We all contribute to the bitcoin ecosystem, and if there is constant negativity and sparring, it doesn't help anyone.”
To improve transparency, organisers promise to make some materials available for public and say that participants are free to take their notes but on the condition that the identity of speakers and authors of ideas would not be disclosed.
Meanwhile, the Core team has implemented new Bitcoin Improvement Proposals to be released as a part of version 0.13.0 in early August. The full list of implemented BIPs available on GitHub now includеs 27 entries, of which three belong to the new version. Some Redditors reacted with enthusiasm provoking a remark from Greg Maxwell that the news “is massively premature” because 0.13.0 release is far from being ready.
Other Reddit users started usual discussions about full nodes, bitcoin block size limit and the timeline of SegWit implementation (probably coming with 0.13.1 version). The user TheAlexGalaxy asked when will the version 1.0.0 be released. He was answered by the Bitcoin Core contributor Mark Friedenbach:
“Probably when it stops feeling like there are so many things that urgently need to be fixed.”
Alexey Tereshchenko
